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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 20 Their dwellings. much dilapidated. And both walls and roof are the same within as without; the rooms have no ceiling, and their walls no sort of ornament or decoration, rarely even white wash, and the floor is of simple earth beaten hard. The value of the residence of a Ryot of the more wealthy class, of whom I am now speaking, probably rarely exceeds 200 Rupees or 20. It may be urged that the habits of the people do not incline them to spend money on im- proving their dwellings, but that they rather invest savings in jewels or rich cloths for great occasions, or in cattle; or expend them on marriages and other family occasions. There is some truth in this; but though every family above actual poverty possesses some jewels, yet probably very few agricultural families possess to so large a value as 1,000 Rupees or 100 for both jewels and clothes; and even supposing an equal value in agri- cultural stock, and so much would very rarely be met with, the whole aggregate value, 220, equal to 1,100 in England, is ex- tremely small to represent the whole property (exclusive of land) of one of the most wealthy members of the land-holding class; and it is the most wealthy only, who possess as much as this. And if we look within their houses we still find few evidences of wealth, or even of what we should consider comfort. I have already described the interior of the house itself; and as to its contents there is nothing of what is commonly called furniture. There are no chairs, or tables, or couches, or beds; sometimes there is seen a single rude cot which would be dear at two Ru- pees. The inmates for the most part sleep on the earthen floor, with nothing else below them but a mat or a small cotton carpet. They sit on ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217427968
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 118
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217427960
  • Publisher Date: 17 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr


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